Economic/Trade & Investment/Trade Facilitation & Logistics

Customs & Border Management

The capacity to clear trade fast and clean: single-window machinery, trusted-trader programmes, risk-based inspection and the border administration that makes speed and control compatible.
factbase.org/cap/YRDF8GQ80H
World mean
9.4
of 20 · median 9.0
Range
0–20
middle half 6.0–13.0
Panel SD
±0.26
round 1 ±1.11 — the honest estimate
Leader
20
Singapore

Indicators

The measures seeded for this capability in the framework. They are candidate indicators: no cell in the index has a source document attached to it yet.

Band spread across 197 nations

Frontier 4
Advanced 23
Established 40
Transitional 37
Foundational 49
Nascent 40
Inception 4

All 197 nations

Best first. The score is the mean of the four adjudicators' round-3 integers, rounded to the nearest integer; ±SD is their spread on that cell. Where the spread is three points or more, read the number as a band rather than a value.

#NationRegionScoreBandPanel SD
1 🇸🇬Singapore Asia Pacific 20 Frontier ±0.00
2 🇯🇵Japan Asia Pacific 18 Frontier ±0.50
3 🇰🇷South Korea Asia Pacific 18 Frontier ±0.43
4 🇺🇸United States Americas 18 Frontier ±0.50
5 🇦🇺Australia Asia Pacific 17 Advanced ±0.43
6 🇫🇷France Europe 17 Advanced ±0.50
7 🇩🇪Germany Europe 17 Advanced ±0.43
8 🇳🇱Netherlands Europe 17 Advanced ±0.43
9 🇸🇪Sweden Europe 17 Advanced ±0.50
10 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates Middle East 17 Advanced ±0.00
11 🇬🇧United Kingdom Europe 17 Advanced ±0.50
12 🇦🇹Austria Europe 16 Advanced ±0.43
13 🇧🇪Belgium Europe 16 Advanced ±0.43
14 🇨🇦Canada Americas 16 Advanced ±0.00
15 🇨🇳China Asia Pacific 16 Advanced ±0.43
16 🇩🇰Denmark Europe 16 Advanced ±0.43
17 🇪🇪Estonia Europe 16 Advanced ±0.00
18 🇫🇮Finland Europe 16 Advanced ±0.43
19 🇮🇪Ireland Europe 16 Advanced ±0.50
20 🇳🇿New Zealand Asia Pacific 16 Advanced ±0.00
21 🇳🇴Norway Europe 16 Advanced ±0.00
22 🇪🇸Spain Europe 16 Advanced ±0.50
23 🇨🇭Switzerland Europe 16 Advanced ±0.43
24 🇹🇼Taiwan Asia Pacific 16 Advanced ±0.00
25 🇨🇿Czechia Europe 15 Advanced ±0.50
26 🇮🇱Israel Middle East 15 Advanced ±0.50
27 🇱🇺Luxembourg Europe 15 Advanced ±0.50
28 🇨🇱Chile Americas 14 Established ±0.43
29 🇭🇺Hungary Europe 14 Established ±0.43
30 🇮🇸Iceland Europe 14 Established ±0.00
31 🇮🇹Italy Europe 14 Established ±0.43
32 🇱🇻Latvia Europe 14 Established ±0.00
33 🇱🇹Lithuania Europe 14 Established ±0.00
34 🇲🇾Malaysia Asia Pacific 14 Established ±0.00
35 🇵🇱Poland Europe 14 Established ±0.00
36 🇵🇹Portugal Europe 14 Established ±0.00
37 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia Middle East 14 Established ±0.43
38 🇸🇮Slovenia Europe 14 Established ±0.00
39 🇹🇷Türkiye Middle East 14 Established ±0.43
40 🇧🇭Bahrain Middle East 13 Established ±0.43
41 🇭🇷Croatia Europe 13 Established ±0.00
42 🇨🇾Cyprus Middle East 13 Established ±0.43
43 🇬🇪Georgia Middle East 13 Established ±0.43
44 🇬🇷Greece Europe 13 Established ±0.00
45 🇮🇳India Asia Pacific 13 Established ±0.43
46 🇱🇮Liechtenstein Europe 13 Established ±0.00
47 🇲🇹Malta Europe 13 Established ±0.00
48 🇲🇺Mauritius Africa 13 Established ±0.43
49 🇲🇽Mexico Americas 13 Established ±0.00
50 🇲🇦Morocco Africa 13 Established ±0.43
51 🇵🇦Panama Americas 13 Established ±0.71
52 🇶🇦Qatar Middle East 13 Established ±0.00
53 🇸🇰Slovakia Europe 13 Established ±0.43
54 🇿🇦South Africa Africa 13 Established ±0.71
55 🇹🇭Thailand Asia Pacific 13 Established ±0.00
56 🇧🇷Brazil Americas 12 Established ±0.43
57 🇧🇬Bulgaria Europe 12 Established ±0.00
58 🇨🇴Colombia Americas 12 Established ±0.00
59 🇨🇷Costa Rica Americas 12 Established ±0.43
60 🇮🇩Indonesia Asia Pacific 12 Established ±0.50
61 🇴🇲Oman Middle East 12 Established ±0.00
62 🇵🇪Peru Americas 12 Established ±0.43
63 🇷🇴Romania Europe 12 Established ±0.43
64 🇷🇺Russia Europe 12 Established ±0.50
65 🇷🇸Serbia Europe 12 Established ±0.00
66 🇺🇾Uruguay Americas 12 Established ±0.00
67 🇻🇳Vietnam Asia Pacific 12 Established ±0.43
68 🇦🇷Argentina Americas 11 Transitional ±0.50
69 🇩🇴Dominican Republic Americas 11 Transitional ±0.43
70 🇪🇬Egypt Africa 11 Transitional ±0.43
71 🇯🇴Jordan Middle East 11 Transitional ±0.00
72 🇰🇿Kazakhstan Asia Pacific 11 Transitional ±0.00
73 🇰🇪Kenya Africa 11 Transitional ±0.00
74 🇰🇼Kuwait Middle East 11 Transitional ±0.50
75 🇷🇼Rwanda Africa 11 Transitional ±0.71
76 🇹🇳Tunisia Africa 11 Transitional ±0.43
77 🇦🇲Armenia Middle East 10 Transitional ±0.00
78 🇦🇿Azerbaijan Middle East 10 Transitional ±0.00
79 🇧🇾Belarus Europe 10 Transitional ±0.50
80 🇧🇼Botswana Africa 10 Transitional ±0.43
81 🇪🇨Ecuador Americas 10 Transitional ±0.00
82 🇸🇻El Salvador Americas 10 Transitional ±0.00
83 🇬🇭Ghana Africa 10 Transitional ±0.43
84 🇲🇪Montenegro Europe 10 Transitional ±0.50
85 🇲🇰North Macedonia Europe 10 Transitional ±0.43
86 🇵🇭Philippines Asia Pacific 10 Transitional ±0.43
87 🇸🇳Senegal Africa 10 Transitional ±0.00
88 🇱🇰Sri Lanka Asia Pacific 10 Transitional ±0.43
89 🇹🇿Tanzania Africa 10 Transitional ±0.50
90 🇺🇦Ukraine Europe 10 Transitional ±0.43
91 🇦🇱Albania Europe 9 Transitional ±0.43
92 🇧🇦Bosnia & Herzegovina Europe 9 Transitional ±0.50
93 🇧🇳Brunei Asia Pacific 9 Transitional ±0.43
94 🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire Africa 9 Transitional ±0.00
95 🇬🇹Guatemala Americas 9 Transitional ±0.43
96 🇭🇳Honduras Americas 9 Transitional ±0.43
97 🇯🇲Jamaica Americas 9 Transitional ±0.00
98 🇲🇩Moldova Europe 9 Transitional ±0.43
99 🇲🇨Monaco Europe 9 Transitional ±1.92
100 🇳🇦Namibia Africa 9 Transitional ±0.00
101 🇵🇾Paraguay Americas 9 Transitional ±0.50
102 🇸🇲San Marino Europe 9 Transitional ±0.71
103 🇹🇹Trinidad & Tobago Americas 9 Transitional ±0.43
104 🇺🇬Uganda Africa 9 Transitional ±0.00
105 🇦🇩Andorra Europe 8 Foundational ±0.50
106 🇧🇸Bahamas Americas 8 Foundational ±0.43
107 🇧🇩Bangladesh Asia Pacific 8 Foundational ±0.00
108 🇧🇧Barbados Americas 8 Foundational ±0.00
109 🇰🇭Cambodia Asia Pacific 8 Foundational ±0.00
110 🇩🇯Djibouti Africa 8 Foundational ±0.50
111 🇽🇰Kosovo Europe 8 Foundational ±0.00
112 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan Asia Pacific 8 Foundational ±0.00
113 🇲🇳Mongolia Asia Pacific 8 Foundational ±0.00
114 🇳🇬Nigeria Africa 8 Foundational ±0.00
115 🇵🇰Pakistan Asia Pacific 8 Foundational ±0.00
116 🇸🇨Seychelles Africa 8 Foundational ±0.00
117 🇹🇬Togo Africa 8 Foundational ±0.43
118 🇺🇿Uzbekistan Asia Pacific 8 Foundational ±0.00
119 🇿🇲Zambia Africa 8 Foundational ±0.00
120 🇩🇿Algeria Africa 7 Foundational ±0.00
121 🇦🇴Angola Africa 7 Foundational ±0.43
122 🇦🇬Antigua & Barbuda Americas 7 Foundational ±0.43
123 🇧🇿Belize Americas 7 Foundational ±0.43
124 🇧🇯Benin Africa 7 Foundational ±0.43
125 🇧🇴Bolivia Americas 7 Foundational ±0.00
126 🇨🇻Cabo Verde Africa 7 Foundational ±0.00
127 🇨🇲Cameroon Africa 7 Foundational ±0.00
128 🇸🇿Eswatini Africa 7 Foundational ±0.00
129 🇪🇹Ethiopia Africa 7 Foundational ±0.43
130 🇫🇯Fiji Asia Pacific 7 Foundational ±0.00
131 🇬🇾Guyana Americas 7 Foundational ±0.00
132 🇮🇷Iran Asia Pacific 7 Foundational ±0.43
133 🇱🇦Laos Asia Pacific 7 Foundational ±0.50
134 🇲🇻Maldives Asia Pacific 7 Foundational ±0.43
135 🇲🇿Mozambique Africa 7 Foundational ±0.00
136 🇳🇮Nicaragua Americas 7 Foundational ±0.00
137 🇿🇼Zimbabwe Africa 7 Foundational ±0.00
138 🇧🇹Bhutan Asia Pacific 6 Foundational ±0.43
139 🇧🇫Burkina Faso Africa 6 Foundational ±0.43
140 🇩🇲Dominica Americas 6 Foundational ±0.00
141 🇬🇦Gabon Africa 6 Foundational ±0.00
142 🇬🇩Grenada Americas 6 Foundational ±0.00
143 🇱🇧Lebanon Middle East 6 Foundational ±0.43
144 🇱🇸Lesotho Africa 6 Foundational ±0.00
145 🇲🇬Madagascar Africa 6 Foundational ±0.00
146 🇲🇼Malawi Africa 6 Foundational ±0.00
147 🇳🇵Nepal Asia Pacific 6 Foundational ±0.00
148 🇵🇬Papua New Guinea Asia Pacific 6 Foundational ±0.43
149 🇰🇳Saint Kitts & Nevis Americas 6 Foundational ±0.50
150 🇱🇨Saint Lucia Americas 6 Foundational ±0.50
151 🇸🇱Sierra Leone Africa 6 Foundational ±0.00
152 🇸🇷Suriname Americas 6 Foundational ±0.00
153 🇹🇯Tajikistan Asia Pacific 6 Foundational ±0.43
154 🇧🇮Burundi Africa 5 Nascent ±0.71
155 🇨🇬Congo Africa 5 Nascent ±0.00
156 🇨🇺Cuba Americas 5 Nascent ±0.00
157 🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea Africa 5 Nascent ±0.00
158 🇬🇲Gambia Africa 5 Nascent ±0.43
159 🇬🇳Guinea Africa 5 Nascent ±0.00
160 🇮🇶Iraq Middle East 5 Nascent ±0.43
161 🇱🇷Liberia Africa 5 Nascent ±0.00
162 🇲🇱Mali Africa 5 Nascent ±0.43
163 🇲🇷Mauritania Africa 5 Nascent ±0.43
164 🇲🇲Myanmar Asia Pacific 5 Nascent ±0.43
165 🇳🇪Niger Africa 5 Nascent ±0.43
166 🇻🇨Saint Vincent & Grenadines Americas 5 Nascent ±0.00
167 🇼🇸Samoa Asia Pacific 5 Nascent ±0.00
168 🇸🇹São Tomé & Príncipe Africa 5 Nascent ±0.00
169 🇸🇧Solomon Islands Asia Pacific 5 Nascent ±0.00
170 🇹🇱Timor-Leste Asia Pacific 5 Nascent ±0.00
171 🇹🇴Tonga Asia Pacific 5 Nascent ±0.00
172 🇹🇲Turkmenistan Asia Pacific 5 Nascent ±0.43
173 🇻🇺Vanuatu Asia Pacific 5 Nascent ±0.00
174 🇻🇪Venezuela Americas 5 Nascent ±0.43
175 🇹🇩Chad Africa 4 Nascent ±0.00
176 🇰🇲Comoros Africa 4 Nascent ±0.00
177 🇨🇩DR Congo Africa 4 Nascent ±0.00
178 🇭🇹Haiti Americas 4 Nascent ±0.43
179 🇱🇾Libya Africa 4 Nascent ±0.50
180 🇲🇭Marshall Islands Asia Pacific 4 Nascent ±0.50
181 🇫🇲Micronesia Asia Pacific 4 Nascent ±0.50
182 🇵🇼Palau Asia Pacific 4 Nascent ±0.83
183 🇵🇸Palestine Middle East 4 Nascent ±0.43
184 🇸🇩Sudan Africa 4 Nascent ±0.00
185 🇦🇫Afghanistan Asia Pacific 3 Nascent ±0.50
186 🇨🇫Central African Rep. Africa 3 Nascent ±0.00
187 🇪🇷Eritrea Africa 3 Nascent ±0.00
188 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau Africa 3 Nascent ±0.43
189 🇰🇮Kiribati Asia Pacific 3 Nascent ±0.43
190 🇳🇷Nauru Asia Pacific 3 Nascent ±0.00
191 🇸🇾Syria Middle East 3 Nascent ±0.00
192 🇹🇻Tuvalu Asia Pacific 3 Nascent ±0.43
193 🇾🇪Yemen Middle East 3 Nascent ±0.50
194 🇰🇵North Korea Asia Pacific 2 Inception ±0.00
195 🇸🇴Somalia Africa 2 Inception ±0.00
196 🇸🇸South Sudan Africa 2 Inception ±0.43
197 🇻🇦Holy See Europe 0 Inception ±0.43

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